By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Baton Rouge U.S. Attorney David R. Dugas, a Bush appointee who took office five weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, announced he is stepping down at the end of the week to join a national law firm with offices in Louisiana. “Serving as United States Attorney has been the greatest…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Sean Joyce, a Boston native, has been named executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch (NSB), a key post that oversees a number of divisions including counterterrorism, counterintelligence, Directorate of Intelligence and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate. His last post was as assistant director of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Obama administration, which still has more vacant positions to fill than a department store chain before Christmas, is apparently getting ready to name a new deputy attorney general. The investigative news website ProPublica reports that the administration is ready to nominate white collar defense attorney James A. Cole, 57 a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Obama announced a slew of nominations Wednesday for U.S. Attorney spots around the country. The U.S. Attorney nominations include: Donald J. Cazayoux Jr. for the Middle District of Louisiana. Pamela Cothran Marsh for the Northern District of Florida; Zane David Memeger for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Peter J. Smith…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Obama, appearing as if he’s trying to play catch up, nominated six U.S. Marshals. They include: Arthur Darrow Baylor for the Middle District of Alabama. Michael Robert Bladel for the Southern District of Iowa. Kevin Anthony Carr for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Kevin Charles Harrison for the Middle District…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Alfred Wong, a former Secret Service official who reportedly oversaw the installation of the taping system at the Nixon White House, and whose job at one point was to prevent the White House from being bugged, died last week of mesothelioma, a form of cancer, the Washington Post reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A key FBI official, Arthur M. Cummings II, executive assistant director for the FBI’s National Security Branch at headquarters– which includes weapons of mass destruction, counterintelligence and counterterrorism — is retiring soon to work for a financial institution in Connecticut. Cummings, who has been an agent for 22-years, had…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com During his colorful career with ATF, which spanned more than three decades, James Cavanaugh found himself in the thick of some of nation’s biggest cases: The D.C. sniper murders, the Unabomber, white supremacist Eric Rudolph, church burnings and the deadly shootout at the Branch Davidian in Waco, Tex. involving leader David…
